Diameter is more universally understood by the layman than radius. Radius is 
normally only used by engineers, scientists and mathematicians.
Plus it keeps us from having to map fractions.
Phil

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On 06/06/2012 13:07 Andrew Errington wrote:

On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:32:59 Colin Smale wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 09:13, Martin Vonwald wrote:
> > If you want to specify the dimension of the mini-roundabout I think it
> > would be sufficient to specify the width of the approaching roads.
> >
> > Martin
>
> How about diameter=15 on the mini-roundabout node? This is factually
> correct, verifiable on the ground and (IMHO) non-controversial; routing
> would not be affected (no need to route over areas) and renderers can
> draw a bigger blob. Problem solved, simples.


If we do this I would really love to see the tag as radius=* instead of
diameter=*.


Thank you,


Andrew

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